The game is of the ‘classic’ 2-D, 3rd person (cartoon style), point
& click, genre. It is partially linear … but not completely so.
The interface is extremely simple and slick … the graphics are
very good (for AGS made games). There are 20 save game slots and the whole
load/save mechanisms are very fast.

Although its download is only
about 1¼ MB in size, this Indie-Freeware game is a reasonably long one.

All steps
necessary to finish the game successfully are included in the
walkthru. You do not however need to stick to the order outlined
below. Of course some actions must be performed before you
can expedite certain others … but apart from that, there is quite a degree of
flexibility.

It’s worth while saving
frequently!

[ (North = N’ …..….. East = E’ …....… South = S’ ……....
West = W’ ) ]

DAY ONE

[001] The game starts with our ‘hero’
(“Trilby” … gentleman thief) breaking into the apparently deserted DeFoe
Manor. He has used his grolly to gain entry. The grolly is a
grappling hook launcher disguised as an umbrella (umbrella in colloquial English
= ‘brolly’), and is in your inventory.

[002] Look around the room. Do what
you can. But there doesn’t seem to be anything you can do
there.

[003] Open the door. You can’t!

[004] Open the window where you
entered. You can’t, it’s stuck!

[005] Again, open the door. This time
(for some reason) it opens.

[006] Exit to the hallway. Observe
what happens when you do that! (somebody runs away).

[007] You can explore all the rooms which
are open, and the garden area outside … as much as you wish. You can take
any inventory items which are available. They probably will not be
necessary for ‘Day-One’ but will save you time taking them later on.

[008] Try to open the 4 doors in the
hallway. They are all locked except the bathroom. You can look
around the bathroom if you wish … but it won’t help you at this stage.

[009] Walk downstairs.

[010] Pick up the newspaper which is
underneath the telephone (not essential yet!).

[011] Read the newspaper … it gives some
background info about the DeFoe Mansion.

[012] From the bottom of the stairs walk
E’.

[013] Open the door and enter the living
room. Continue by opening the door and walk E’ into the TV room.

[014] Turn on the TV and get some more
background info.

[015] Take the VCR extension cord (not
essential yet!).

[016] Open the other door and walk E’ into
the trophy room.

[017] Meet and talk to Philip Harty.
He will outline some of the strange goings on in the mansion. He will also
detail the others apparently trapped there … Simone Taylor, the youngster Jim,
and (the previously seen) flighty “AJ”.

[018] Return and go upstairs again.
Walk E’ and you will see the TV personality Simone.

[019] She is trying to open the furthest
locked door (excluding the bathroom). Talk to her.

[020] Go downstairs. From the bottom
of the stairs walk W’. Open the door and enter the dining room.
(Notice the portrait). Continue by opening the door and walk W’ into the
kitchen. Look around the kitchen. Nothing to do in these places.

[021] Continue again by opening the door and
walk NW’ outside into the garden. Look at and pick up the twig from the
ground (not essential yet!).

[022] Push the tree. A voice is heard
from somewhere.

[023] Talk to the tree. Jim jumps down
from an upper branch and talks to Trilby.

[024] Walking E’ all the time, return to the
living room. Join 3 of the prisoners there (Phil, Simone and Jim … AJ is
absent) and discuss the situation.

[025] Talk to all 3 and exhaust dialogs with
each of them.

[026] Phil gives Trilby a cut out article
containing some history of the Defoe’s.

[027] Read the article (whenever).

[028] They all retire for the night.
Trilby has a nightmare, and wakes up to ………..

DAY TWO

[029] Return to the dining room. The
portrait seems a little bit different … but the significance of this is
questionable!

[030] Exhaust all dialogs with young
Jim.

[031] Continue into the garden and walk
E’.

[032] Investigate the swimming pool.
Seems there’s something down there … but the pool needs draining to find out
what!

[033] Continue E’ and look at the
pipe. Maybe that’s a drainage pipe?

[034] Walk E’ again.

[035] Talk to Phil and exhaust all dialogs
with him. You ask him to let you borrow his metal detector. He will
only agree if/when you can give him a map of some tomb.

[036] Return to the house, and go upstairs
again.

[037] Look at the door closest to the top of
the stairs. Its lock has been forcibly broken.

[038] Enter … it’s a library and Simone’s
there.

[039] Talk to Simone and exhaust all
topics.

[040] Notice the books at the extreme left
2nd row down. The 6th and 7th from the left are yellow in color.
Take one.

[041] Look at it. It’s a map of the
manor and grounds. Note the comments.

[042] Below these and a little to the right,
on the bottom row, are several light blue books. Take one (not essential
yet!).

[043] Read the tragic history of the
original DeFoe’s.

[044] Return to Phil … at the same place in
the garden.

[045] Give Phil the map and he gives you his
metal detector.

[046] Walk W’, towards the swimming
pool.

[047] Use the metal detector on the
pipeline. It leads you to a specific pile of dirt on the lawn near to the
rear wall.

[048] Poke the pile of dirt and it reveals a
metal panel with a single unmarked red button.

[049] Press the panel. It doesn’t seem
to do anything. But ……………….

[050] Walk W’. The pool has been
emptied.

[051] There are stairs leading down the
empty pool. Go down … but only if you have fairly good nerves and are not
too sensitive! There are some rather gory cut scenes, leading to
………………

DAY THREE

[052] Return to the dining room. The
picture seems a little bit different again … but the significance of this is
again questionable!

[053] Talk to Phil who is sitting there.

[054] Continue W’ and into the garden.
Jim is there looking at a red car which has mysteriously appeared
there. It’s Trilby’s car which he left at the front of the
mansion!

[055] Open your car and take the lockpicks
from inside it.

[056] Use the lockpicks on the toolshed and
enter.

[057] Take the pickaxe.

[058] Take the two-man wood saw.

[059] You can try using the saw to cut down
the tree … but that’s not a one-man job (not essential!).

[060] Return to the house and go
upstairs.

[061] Use the lockpick on the locked door to
the right of the library. It still won’t open. “Probably a dead bolt
on the other side”.

[062] Use the lockpick on the locked door to
the right of the previous one.

[063] This door opens … so enter.

[064] Open the wardrobe.

[065] Take the green book from inside the
wardrobe.

[066] Read the book. It is the unhappy
diary of Sir Roderick DeFoe with entries dated around the early 19th
century.

[067] It would seem to be Sir Roderick’s
room. Notice the weird scratch marks under the window (not
essential!).

[068] Open the window.

[069] Climb out onto the external window
ledge.

[070] Perhaps you can reach the window to
the E’ and gain entry to the locked room?

[071] Maybe the tree or its branches are in
the way?

[072] Leave the room and enter the
library. Jim is there.

[073] Talk to Jim. He offers to help
and Trilby agrees.

[074] Wherever Trilby goes now, Jim follows
him.

[075] Exit the library, go downstairs, and
out to the tree in the garden … Jim following all the time.

[076] Use the saw ( see [058] and [059] ) on
the tree. You succeed in cutting it down now since it’s a two-man job and
you’ve got Jim to work the other end.

[077] Return to the house, up the stairs and
back into Sir Roderick’s room.

[078] Tell Jim to wait for you in the
library and climb out of the window again.

[079] Now there are no branches or tree to
hinder you, but how can you make it to the other window?

[080] Look at the roof. No apparent
help there.

[081] Notice a loose tile in the roof.

[082] Use your grolly (grappling hook
launcher) on the loose tile and swing yourself over to the other window.

[083] Enter the room and look around.

[084] Take the Victorian-era teddy bear from
the bed.

[085] Open the nightstand.

[086] Take the red book … young Matthew
DeFoe’s secret diary.

[087] Read the sad diary.

[088] You now leave Matthew DeFoe’s bedroom
by opening its door (You don’t/can’t use the window any longer).

[089] Go into the library.

[090] See [042]. If you haven’t done
so earlier, take a book on the ‘History of the DeFoe Family’.

[091] Make sure that you have read the
green, red and blue books, and also the cutting Phil gave you, and the
newspaper.

[092] If you haven’t obtained and read ALL
of the above, then do so now.

[093] Trilby will say “Maybe if I could find
Matthew’s body”. “Maybe there’s a book in the library that could
help”.

[094] Enter the library. Look at the
row of black colored books at the extreme right and second row down.
“Books on the occult (White Magic)”.

[095] Take one of these black books (in
inventory it’s white!).

[096] Read the instructions in it, i.e. how
to find Matthew’s body by making and using a ‘Matthew DeFoe-detector’!

[097] You need a teddy bear ( see [084] ), a
wooden twig ( see [021] ), and some extension cord ( see [015] ). If you
haven’t got every one of these, get them now!

[098] In inventory, use the extension cord
with the teddy bear.

[099] In inventory, use the above
combination with the wooden twig/stick.

[100] Go to the kitchen.

[101] Look low down and to the left of the
cooker and see a large bag of salt.

[106] Look at your ‘Matthew DeFoe-detector’
in inventory. It instructs you to walk downwards.

[107] Repeat [106] until it leads you to
some destination.

[108] It seems to have led you to the
kitchen.

[109] Perhaps the wall? But you can’t
do anything with your bare hands!

[110] Use your pickaxe ( see [057] ) on the
wall.

[111] It opens up a large hole.

[112] Apparently there’s a bricked up
stairwell behind the wall. Enter the hole and into a cellar.

[113] Look at the manacles/chains (not
essential!).

[114] It seems that Matthew’s body is
somewhere in that cellar. Use your ‘Matthew DeFoe-detector’.

[115] This may be a bit inaccurate but it
will lead you to a point in the floor where the indicator is pointing straight
downwards. (If you can’t find it, walk to the following position :- There
are 3 straight horizontal parallel lines on the floor stretching from the E’
wall. Go to the W’ end of the most S’ of these 3 lines. That’s the
place.)

[116] If you now look at the floor at or
near that point, it will now highlight an ‘area’ where Matthew’s body lies.

[117] Get Trilby to ‘operate’ on that
area.

[118] He uncovers not only the body of young
Matthew, but also the body of an older man; presumably Sir Roderick.

[119] He hears a loud crash which sounds as
though it came from the other side of the house.

[120] Go back to the kitchen and then E’ all
the time until you reach the trophy room. [121] Look at the smashed bell
jar and the undamaged hideously ugly wooden idol on the floor there.

[122] Touch the idol. This sparks off
another dramatic scene bringing about ………….

DAY FOUR

[123] Trilby has been knocked out. He
comes to in the toolshed with almost all of his inventory removed.

[124] Try to get out of the toolshed.
You can’t!

[125] Talk to Simone who is the other side
of the window guarding Trilby.

[126] Keep talking to her on and on and on,
until she very reluctantly unwittingly helps you.

[133] Look everywhere for the remaining
pair; Simone and Jim. (The portrait in the dining room is completely
altered now!).

[134] If you can’t find them, wait
outside the bathroom AND SAVE !

[135] Enter the bathroom. Simone joins
Trilby and agrees that he’s not the murderer. They talk … and ……………

[136] Enter … a large figure in an apron and
welding mask and brandishing a machete. If you don’t do something
quickly you’re dead and have to restore a previous Save!

[137] Wait just a few seconds until the
creature (Jim dressed up apparently) is on the red bathroom floor rug (mat) and
pull it … and you’re in ………………

DAY FIVE

[138] Talk to Simone until you have worked
out what all this seems to be about. Pretty far fetched? … it
depends on whether you believe in ghosts &/or the supernatural. ( It doesn’t
matter which dialogs you choose, the same full narrative will be revealed!).